Thursday, March 02, 2006

Further to this discussion on QA vs Testing – Michael Bolton makes a very interesting statement about what QA can do which tester can not or not empowered to do.

For myself, I don't like the term "quality assurance", and will do what I can to make sure that I'm called a tester. Unless I have authority and control over schedule, budget, staffing, product content, and product direction, I don't have the ability to assure quality in a product. I can report on it, though--and that's what a tester does, in my view.

Here is the complete Google group discussion thread on the topichttp://groups.google.com/group/comp.software.testing/browse_thread/thread/71c357a1c4d1b342